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Very cute. Must be gay. Aren't all the cute ones gay or priests? Darn it...

__________________Please consider adopting a rescue animal. So very many need a furr-ever home and someone to love them! And if we all spay/neuter our pets there won't be an overpopulation to put to death.

__________________"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?"-- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)

When I moved to New Orleans years ago, I brought along 85 (large) boxes of books, journals, and technical reports. I had no bed and no TV, but I had my books - - my "stuff" was almost entirely books. What an albatross my books had become!

So, I have gradually managed to reduce that to the amount I presently own, about 15 boxes of my most cherished books. (That is less than half of the 36 boxes of books that I had when I moved away from Hawaii in 1975.) I am still working on my book reduction project and by the time we move I might have even fewer books than I do today.

Our planned ER location has a new library with a very nice book collection and a pleasant reading room. I plan to spend a lot of time there reading. I might get a Kindle, too.

__________________100% retired since 2009 and never plan to work for anybody ever again, paid or not. Retirement funded by Social Security, mini-pension, and investments (AA 45:55, mostly Vanguard). Debt free with no mortgage and over-the-moon happy to be retired.

As for my friend being gay or not, it doesn't matter to me as I'm married. I will say this; he's told me if I ever become single, we should shack up together...

Ahhh yeah...he is the handsome one...with a heart of gold.

And a great smile!

__________________100% retired since 2009 and never plan to work for anybody ever again, paid or not. Retirement funded by Social Security, mini-pension, and investments (AA 45:55, mostly Vanguard). Debt free with no mortgage and over-the-moon happy to be retired.

Seems like the oldest thing around my place is SO relaxing on the recliner. I'll spare you the photos. Why is that the smallest belly looks like an eighth month pregnancy when leaning back in a recliner?

Something weird and old? I've got a jar full of rattlesnake rattles collected from my younger years on my grandpa's ranch. Probably 20 in all. I can pretty much identify every one of them by sight. There's the one that struck at me when I picked up a saddle blanket, the one that killed my pet rabbit, The one my grandma shot in the chicken house....that was a hoot to watch.

All other snakes were off limits per my grandpa. We needed snakes to help control the rodents, but poisonous snakes had to be dealt with.

[QUOTE=IndependentlyPoor;852527I am living proof that the gays ones aren't all cute.[/QUOTE]

Not so sure. For me, the definition of "cute" goes well beyond the outer layer. Yeah, I post about Adam, Prince and Bowie, but the most beautiful people I know would never make the cover of the fashion magazines.

Heh. I once saw the Topkapi Palace, a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The sultans collected some unusual things. Oh, it had the usual imperial carriages, the odd emerald the size of an egg, an 86 carat diamond, jewel encrusted thrones and whatnot.

It also has the cloak and a hair of the beard of the prophet Muhammad, the staff of Moses, the turban of Joseph, and the forearm and hand of St. John the Baptist.

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